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Early Spring

27 Jan

I think I’m in trouble now.

This is January, right?

Isn’t January the middle of winter?

Well, it kind of doesn’t seem like that here – but the flowers should pay attention.

They’re not supposed to show up for months.

But my person found one today.

The first flower of spring – but it’s still winter.

Which means it’s already started.

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Those drudgingly long waits while my person gets her camera out and takes picture after picture of flowers.

And it looks like it’s going to be a long season this year.

I don’t know why she does it.

I mean, aren’t these the same kinds of flowers that she took pictures of last year.

And the year before.

I just don’t get people sometimes.

They don’t make any sense.

Okay, I’m done with my rant until the next time my person gets her camera out.

Wait! What?

More flowers already?

I forgot about those Manzanita bushes.

They always start blooming really early.

And then when they stop blooming they have berries.

And my person takes pictures of those.

I think I’d better do something about this.

Maybe I should eat them like I did to those curly weeds the other day.

Oh. Ummm.

This is going to be tricky.

There are a lot of Manzanita bushes on my trails.

Does anybody want to come help?

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Posted by Bongo on January 27, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Camera, Flower, manzanita, Pets, Trail

No Fair!

25 Jan

Sometimes life just isn’t fair.

Like today for example.

I got stuck in my kennel all day.

All day, mind you.

While my person went off and had fun all day.

And then she had to show me pictures to rub it in.

She hung out with ducks.

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I don’t know why she didn’t take me.

I could have gone swimming and duck chasing all at the same time.

I would have broken up that fight.

But I guess my person didn’t like the duck violence because then she started checking out a crane.

Something was chasing that crane off.

I’m not sure if it was the duck fight or my person’s camera.

So my person left those birds and found more fun stuff – without me.

I bet I could have gone for a ride in that pink car.

Or maybe not. I guess if the car took off they’d have to change the name of that road.

But here’s the worst part.

My person actually hung out with other dogs – without me.

At first I thought she went to visit my friend Kevin…

But my person said there was no way she could have gone to Japan and back in a day.

I’m not sure I believe her.

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Posted by Bongo on January 25, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: crane, dog jail, ducks, Kevin, Pets, Photography, pink car, Shiba Inu

Stare Down

24 Jan

I went out in my yard today as innocent as can be.

All I wanted to do was play with my Frisbee.

Oh yeah, and take care of other things too.

When all of a sudden my attention was drawn upward.

Do you believe it?

This pesky squirrel was sitting on a wire staring down at me.

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And we sat there having a staring contest.

I’ll get that pesky squirrel yet!

At least I won the contest.

That pesky squirrel couldn’t hold out very long.

And he…

Ran on down the wire.

What a chicken!

Wait. Umm. I mean –

Chickens are good.

To eat that is.

That squirrel ain’t no chicken.

He’s a …

He’s a…

Scaredy cat. That’s what he is!

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Posted by Bongo on January 24, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Frisbee, pesky squirrel, Pets, Squirrel

Slacking on the Job

23 Jan

You see what’s attached to me?

No, no! Not the leash.

Well, I guess you can’t see what’s attached to my leash, but you can probably figure it out.

My person is on the other end of it.

It’s kind of a burden sometimes but it’s one of my jobs.

I’ve got to take her out so she can get her exercise.

I thought all dogs had this on their job description.

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But I found one today who doesn’t seem to think so.

Who is that hiding in the bushes?

I wonder if she ditched her person by going places her person couldn’t follow.

Here she comes.

Hey brown dog, if you’d stay on the trail like me you could be doing your dogly duty and giving your person exercise.

Say what?

Don’t tell me what to do.

It’s a little late to be hitting the trail now.

Where is your person anyway?

Fine. Be that way.

What is it with these personless brown dogs anyway?

It seems to be turning into an epidemic around here.

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Posted by Bongo on January 23, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: brown dog, exercise, Leash, Outdoors, Pets, Trail, Walking

Curly Competition

22 Jan

I thought I was safe this time of year.

No wildflowers are blooming, so my person isn’t getting her camera out every few minutes and making me wait while she takes pictures.

So I couldn’t understand why she pulled her camera out.

I mean, it’s the middle of winter – well, I think it is. The calendar says it is.

So what is there to take pictures of?

Except me, of course.

And I wasn’t doing anything spectacular at the time.

Nothing to take pictures of anyway.

And then my person gets up close and personal – with a weed.

I guess she’s pretty desperate.

She wants to take pictures so bad that she’s even willing to take pictures of weeds.

Maybe she should get another hobby.

I think I ought to help her along.

No, not with another hobby.

I don’t want her doing anything else that would take her attention from me.

No, I’m going to help her along by doing away with her subject matter.

By eating it.

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Posted by Bongo on January 22, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Camera, hobby, Pets, Photography, weeds

Strange Sounds

21 Jan

Sometimes when I’m out on my trails I hear strange sounds coming from the top of Sugarloaf.

In case you haven’t figured it out, Sugarloaf is that round, red, hill thing over there.

So anyway, back to those strange sounds.

Sometimes I hear people yelling from up there.

Sometimes someone is playing a flute.

I’ve even heard drums beating up there.

But today I heard one of the strangest sounds of all.

I heard chanting.

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And not just any chanting.

Three people were chanting in unison.

They must have practiced a long time because they all were in the same place at the same time with their chant.

I heard that sound, but I had to look all over the place before I finally found where it was coming from.

So I had my person take a picture of those chanters so you could see them too.

But I think you might have to look as hard as I did in order to find them.

Happy chanting – I mean looking.

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Posted by Bongo on January 21, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: chanting, Pets, Sugarloaf, Trail

Danger Warning

20 Jan

They’re all over my trails.

Sometimes people we pass ask my person how she keeps me away from them.

But for the first time today someone warned us about them.

A boy who had just discovered them.

I don’t think he was attacked, but he saw the danger.

Those things have attitude.

And some of them hang out right next to my trails.

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So close that you have to be careful not to brush against them.

But I think that boy might have been overly concerned.

Let me see.

Nope, he’s right.

Away, you prickly pear! Away!

Don’t get so close to my trails.

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32 Comments

Posted by Bongo on January 20, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cactus, Pets, prickly pear, Trail

Where is Everybody?

18 Jan

There are hardly any people – or dogs – on my trails compared to what there were a few weeks ago.

I don’t get it.

The weather hasn’t changed.

If anything it’s gotten warmer – and sunnier.

My person says they all left town after the holidays to go back home.

Back to their houses in the snow.

I wish they’d send some snow over here.

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That would be perfect – warm sunny days with snow to play in.

But there’s no snow.

There’s no people.

And there’s no dogs.

How am I supposed to have any adventures?

Guess I’ll go take a nap.

26 Comments

Posted by Bongo on January 18, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: boredom, Hiking, Pets, sunny, Trail, warm

Kitchen Invasion

17 Jan

I didn’t notice it at first.

I thought everything was okay.

But then, when I saw this picture of me I found something extra in it.

Something that’s not supposed to be there.

And it for sure isn’t me.

And it isn’t my ball either.

This is serious.

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Something’s invaded my kitchen!

I thought maybe I’d better look around, you know, get on my Detective Dog hat and investigate.

But my person wanted to take another picture.

Yikes!

Do you see them?

There are more of whatever those things are invading my kitchen.

What if they eat all the crumbs that fall on the floor?

Those are my crumbs!

It’s my job to eat them.

Person, you’d better do something about these little black things all over my kitchen.

Get them out of here!

This is a serious invasion, and besides them eating all my crumbs on the floor I think I’m going to have nightmares about them taking over.

They’re everywhere!

22 Comments

Posted by Bongo on January 17, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: invasion, Kitchen, Pets, spiders

New Tags

16 Jan

What’s this?

There’s some kind of label on my trail cairn.

It’s never been here before.

I wonder what it’s supposed to do.

Maybe each trail cairn is going to get its own special tag.

Then when someone gives directions on my trails they don’t have to say, “Follow the cairns to the end of the trail.”

They could say, “Go past the red tagged cairn and turn left at the blue tagged cairn.”

That would make it so much easier to give directions.

Unless you forgot which tags were on which cairns.

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If you told someone the wrong thing they might get really lost. They might end up at the trail that ends in a big hole instead of at the trail where they could climb a mountain like they really wanted to do.

Whoever put that tag on there needs to come up with something better.

But how am I going to tell them? I don’t even know who put that tag there.

Maybe if I sniff around I can find some clues.

I don’t know.

There’s been so many messages left here (including some of my old ones) that I don’t know if I’ll ever sort it all out.

Wait. What’s this?

This tag has another side.

The other side is a necklace.

And it says, “PASS IT ON!”

I’ve got it now.

This tag wasn’t left here to label the cairn – this necklace was left here for me.

So I could pass it on to the next one of my girlfriends that I see.

I wonder who my lucky girlfriend will be.

20 Comments

Posted by Bongo on January 16, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: cairn, girlfriend, Hiking, necklace, Pets, tag, Trail

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